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2016年1月9日
Start of the New Year, 2016 Tom Banks
Liège-Guillemins
2016年1月9日, ベルギー ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
Liège-Guillemins railway station, modern architecture's greatest achievement? I'd probably say so. Light, clean, slick, non-bulky, open, fresh - so many adjectives. It makes a statement, but isn't consciously trying to do so. It's functional, and not show-offy. It isn't trying to be a landmark, but succeeds at it in any case. It's doesn't bully it's surroundings or stick out. Can that really be said of most other examples of modern architecture?もっと詳しく
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Montagne de Bueren
2016年1月9日, ベルギー ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
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Le pot au lait
2016年1月11日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
The best pub in the world!
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Cream with Coffee
2016年1月11日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
The Belgians like their cream with a little bit of coffee. And,of course, a little waffle.
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Liege
2016年1月11日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
Liege, arguably Belgium's most working class city, sits straddles the Mass (or La Meuse in French) and is Wallonia's largest city. It feels quite remote, surrounded as it is by the hill's of the Ardennes, but Maastricht is only a 15 minute train journey away.もっと詳しく
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Bergisch Gladbach
2016年1月16日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
Bergisch Gladbach, a medium sized town just a few miles east of Cologne, is not to be confused with Mönchengladbach. Gladbach, gladbach, gladbach. Many people often use the name gladbach as short hand for Mönchengladbach, although a gladbach is actually the German word for a small brook. So there's really no connection between the two towns other than they both were settlements based around small brooks.もっと詳しく
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Schloss Bensberg
2016年1月16日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
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The Second World War
2016年1月17日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ -2 °C
Britain is obsessed with the Second World War. 'For a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour,' so wrote Churchill. Well, men have been saying it for the past 70 years and will probably go on saying it for the remaining 930 years.

Still, while Britain is obsessed with WWII, it is by no means not a unique obsession. Take yesterday for example. I travel to Bergisch Gladbach, spot a bookshop on the high-street and take a customary browse. Bergish Gladbach: small town, small bookshop. The history section was but a single bookcase. Yet how much of that bookcase was dedicated to the Second World War? At least 60-70%, I'd say.

The recently republished Mein Kampf; a Hitler biography or two; histories of the Holocaust; books about the run up to the war, books about it's aftermath; a book about war children, another about the Hitler Youth. For anyone wanting to read about anything even remotely relating to the Second World War, this little bookshop in Bergisch Gladbach has all the bases covered. With just a single book on Bismarck, one book on Waterloo, a handful on the First World War, it seems that the rest of history is being slightly neglected.

Goebbels famously called for a total war. Today Germany suffers from a total obsession. It's not just in the bookshops but in the newspapers, on the streets, in the pubs and in the supermarkets - it permeates all of society. Not that that is necessarily an unhealthy obsession, but an obsession it is.もっと詳しく
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Moscou, Ghent
2016年1月30日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
So I was at first surprised to find out that there is a Stalingrad in Paris. And again, surprised to find out there is a Moscou in Ghent. Moscou, a neighbourhood in Ghent, was named so because of the presence of the Russian army in the city in 1814 during the Napoleonic wars. Before the Russians arrived, the city had been under administrative control of Napoleon. So that's just another thing that is the way it is because of Napoleon. He really did leave his mark!もっと詳しく
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Vleeshuistragel, Ghent
2016年1月30日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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Gravensteen, Ghent
2016年1月30日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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Vrijdagmarkt, Ghent
2016年1月30日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent
2016年1月30日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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Poeljemarkt, Ghent
2016年1月30日, ベルギー ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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Krefeld
2016年1月30日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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Cologne from Above
2016年1月30日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
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English Speakers Are Welcomed
2016年1月30日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌧 8 °C
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The Maas at Venlo
2016年1月31日, オランダ ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
The Maas at Venlo. One of Europe's great rivers. Other towns and cities I've visited that the Maas flows through are: Roermond, Maastricht, Rotterdam Liege. It flows also through Namur and heads deep into France.もっと詳しく
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Stadhuis in Venlo
2016年1月31日, オランダ ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
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Flags in Venlo
2016年1月31日, オランダ ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
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Tasty Tom
2016年1月31日, オランダ ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
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France vs Italy - 6 Nations Opener
2016年2月9日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
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Sunday Brunch in Paris' 1st Arr.
2016年2月9日, フランス ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
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karneval 2016 köln
2016年2月9日, ドイツ ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
I wonder how long it took to wash off the green paint. looked a fun day but a bit cold
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Abandoned Düsseldorf - Hafen
2016年2月22日, ドイツ ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
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